On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 16:40, Pupeno wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I was just thinking if it wouldn't be a good idea to integrate bittorrent into > ebuild so people could use it to download the sources from diferent mirrors > and even people could share a bit aliviating mirrors' task... of course, the > current way should be available always and bittorrent as an improved way if > it is posible (that is, if bittorrent is installed (and enabled ?) and > there's a .bittorrent file for the file that's going to be downloaded). > Or this is already done and I didn't know ? > Thanks.
I talked to the bittorent author about this and he was happy to help, and it would be nice to add this functionality. He did point out that bittorrent works best with large files like ISOs rather than standard-sized archives, though. Best Regards, Daniel
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